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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distorting.] 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. [1913 Webster] Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. [1913 Webster] Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distorting.] 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
distorted adj 1: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: contorted, twisted] 2: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers" [syn: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen] 3: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: misrepresented, perverted, twisted]From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
distorted vb. (infl of en distort ed-form)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
distorted vb. (infl of en distort ed-form)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
distorted vb. (infl of en distort ed-form)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
distorted vb. (infl of en distort ed-form)From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
distorted Englanti vb. (en-v-taivm d istort ed)From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
distorted Engelska a. (avledning en distort ordform=perfpart) Engelska vb. (böjning en verb distort)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ مشوّهFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]zkreslený
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]deformovaný
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]překroucený
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ deformiert, verformt see: distort, distorting, distorts, distortedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ deformierte, verformte see: distort, distorting, distorted, distortsFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ verballhornt Synonym: corrupted see: corrupt sth., distort sth., corrupting, distorting, corrupt a phrase, distort a textFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ verdreht, verzerrt, verfälscht, verfremdet "give a distorted picture of his childhood" - ein Zerrbild von seiner Kindheit zeichnen/vermitteln Synonyms: skewed, warped see: distort sth., skew sth., warp sth., distorting, skewing, warping, distorts, skews, warps, distorted, skewed, warped, distort/skew the facts, distort/skew the result, distort/skew the figures/data, warp sb.'s judgement, External influences may distort the results.From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ verdrehte, verzerrte, verfälschte, verfremdete "give a distorted picture of his childhood" - ein Zerrbild von seiner Kindheit zeichnen/vermitteln Synonyms: skewed, warped see: distort sth., skew sth., warp sth., distorting, skewing, warping, distorted, skewed, warped, distorts, skews, warps, distort/skew the facts, distort/skew the result, distort/skew the figures/data, warp sb.'s judgement, External influences may distort the results.From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ verdreht, verwunden Synonyms: twisted, warped, skewed see: distort, twist, warp, skew sth., distorting, twisting, warping, skewingFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ διαστραμμένοςFrom English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ iskrivljenFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
distorted /dɪstˈɔːtɪd/ torzultFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/dɪˈstɔɹtəd/, /dɪˈstɔɹtɪd/
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "distorted": aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, asymmetric, at fault, awry, bastard, bent, beside the mark, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, catachrestic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contorted, corrupt, counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defaced, defective, deflected, deflective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disfigured, dispersed, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, errant, erring, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, faultful, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive, flawed, flectional, flexed, garbled, heretical, heterodox, illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, inflective, irregular, junky, keloidal, kinked, labyrinthine, lopsided, make-believe, man-made, marred, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misread, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track, one-sided, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, scattered, self-contradictory, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, skew, skewed, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, straying, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, unauthentic, unfactual, ungenuine, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsymmetric, untrue, warped, wide, wrongFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 扭曲的;被歪曲的From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
adj. 扭曲的